Fraud Alert – There’s Nothing Wrong With Your Voter Registration – Culver City Crossroads

If you receive a text or email from “Fix California,” do not respond. It is a Republican “voter integrity” scam to “secure our elections.”

While the scammer will tell you there is a problem with your voter registration and send you to a real government site, if you re-register, you may be flagged as a duplicate voter, creating a problem where there was none and invalidating your vote.

Fix California is an organization founded by Ric Grenell, who served as Deputy Director of National Intelligence in President Donald Trump’s cabinet since February 2020. While the website offers platitudes about promoting conservative ideas, when they text you to say there’s a problem with your voter registration, that’s a lie.

All of this is misinformation designed to create the false impression that our elections are not fair, legal, and secure. Even here in ocean-blue California, Republicans are spending money to disempower voters through fearmongering.

This is nothing new; it was the case before the last election.

A news site called California Globe posted in September 2021 “They (Fix California) have checked voter data with the California Secretary of State, Department of Motor Vehicles, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address database, California Attorney General, all California Supreme Courts, county health systems, county and city attorneys’ offices, and county and city election offices… And that’s Grenell’s concern: “Through our work on the data front, we are identifying key areas where there appears to be a high concentration of inaccurate or poorly maintained voter rolls.”

How Culver City ended up on the list of “poorly managed voter rolls” is an unanswered question, and what standard constitutes “poorly managed” is also not defined in the city’s public information.

The vigilantism-driven voter registration fraud is part of a broader Republican campaign to create problems that don’t exist, but citizens’ deep concerns could lead them to inadvertently tamper with their own registration.

Best advice – delete and report as spam or junk.

The last day to register to vote in California is October 22, 2024.

Judith Martin-Straw